The billionaire also told the outlet that he plans to vote for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Texas GOP primary Tuesday as “a protest vote against Trump,” but that he would still support the current president versus the former one.
I get it.
I was just thinking about the whole Trump thing, about how someone could get hooked into the stupid. And I found that in a way it made sense in 2016 to vote for Trump, in a weird reverse bumfight kind of way. As in seeing fuckwits like Kissinger not just get away with, but get rich off of making the world a worse place, and nobody ever facing consequences. Trump was the gorilla on speed, who is certainly not going to make stuff better for us, but he will at least make it worse for those on top as well.
Of course, that only makes sense if you don’t see how fragile the whole US system is, and how easily even someone completely stupid like Trump can burn it down. If he was halfway intelligent, maybe he would have got reelected by not mismanaging COVID that badly or IDK. And the US would be a dictatorship, Ukraine and Taiwan would no longer exist and so on.
That said if nothing else changes, I would still go vote in the general if I lived in the US. I would rationalize it to myself that it is not a vote for Biden but against Trump. It would feel bad though. And that’s what empires and autocracies are built on. Voting feeling wrong builds apathy. Apathy leads to dictatorships.